4 Tips: Maintain Your Fitness and Still Enjoy the Holidays Hydrate Like Crazy We all know drinking adequate water is important. More so important during the holidays when extra goodies are being handed around. Being hydrated will not only help keep you feeling satiated but can help boost your metabolism and not to mention […]
“If exercise could be packed into a pill, it would be the single most widely prescribed and beneficial medicine in the nation.” – Dr. Robert Butler, National Institute on Aging Okay, so this is a HUGE topic…. I think it is the most important one I’ve ever had the opportunity to blog about. I can tell […]
At Rep 1 Fitness we’ve seen our older adult clients achieve amazing health and fitness results. Perhaps the word ‘amazing’ is downplaying their achievements and we should say ‘life changing’! Our senior clients can be seen working on single leg balance drills, learning to lift weights or even venturing into weekend cycling races. No […]
Motivation, Dedication and Crushing your Fitness Goals! With New Years resolutions right around the corner it seems like everyone in Vancouver is thinking about fitness and health motivation. How many times have you set a resolution at the beginning of the year just to watch it fade away a few weeks later? […]
How You Can Use Intermittent Fasting to Fast Track your Weight loss! If you’ve been working out in a gym or training with a personal trainer in Vancouver lately you’ve most likely heard of intermittent fasting or maybe you’ve heard just whispers of it from fellow fitness enthusiast sea-wall runners as they wiz past! So […]
Fitness tracking is not new! ‘Back in the day’ there were books you could buy that supplied programs (for running, weightlifting, cycling, etc) and gave you charts to track your progress… with a pen!!! But as we moved out of the era of the chisel and stone and into […]
OK….September is here! We are all back to our busy schedules and fitness routines, hopefully we have kept up our training, or, at the very least stayed active on our summer holidays. Thankfully I have kept up with my “in gym” training sessions, my shoulder is feeling great and I’m back playing hockey and football […]
Laura had tons of things on her plate leading up to her wedding… including getting her masters! But she did a strong push in her workouts leading up the big day and the results paid off; as you can see by the photos. Laura rocks her workouts Monday nights with her sister Brooke (in one […]
This has been an amazing summer for my kids, not only has the weather been fantastic for them to be outside all day but my daughter has learned to ride her bike. My daughter, “Kitty” watches her brother, “Jackson”, get on his bike everyday and rip around. She is so envious of him. I tried […]
Taking time to do the “extra” is usually not one of the priorities with regards to our training regime but it is one of the most important! What is the “extra”? It’s taking and making time to take care of our bodies, stretching protocol, foam rolling, massage, physio and sleep are all examples of the “extra”! […]
Recently, the Rep1 staff were treated, by the owners, to dinner at Colony Pub. As is only human, some of the staff let loose and indulged in some foods they would usually avoid. Can you guess who ate/ordered what? #1- Two owners and one trainer ordered burgers and onion rings/fries for their main course #2- […]
Flying to California for a conference, Hawaii for a holiday, or Whistler for a weekend away, your fitness regime DOES NOT and SHOULD NOT have to suffer. Wheither you are staying in a top hotel or a cozy cabin, wheither its sunny, raining or snowing there will be lots of exercise options. The key is […]